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Journal #36: Final Forms

In July, we tore out the concrete slab in front of the old garage to make room for the foundation on which the new house extension now stands. We poured that slab back when I was in grade school so I could have a flat surface to play basketball on. Many good memories followed, the [...]

Quote 11-19-2014

“No amount of ideology can change the profound dependence of each human person not only on other human beings, but on air and water and other species as well––the invisible ‘others,’ the great ‘cloud of witnesses’ we depend on. But whereas ‘independence’ is a word enshrined in history, ‘interdependence’ is an uncelebrated academic neologism. Efforts [...]